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Achieving Livable Communities
Through Transportation
Purdue Road School
March 8, 2011
Why Livable Communities
Livable …
is sustainable and can enhance environmental performance
Provides safe, reliable, economical transportation options
promotes reinvestment in existing communities
can improve community quality of life
meets the mobility needs of communities, families, and
businesses.
How livable communities
Not just a single project…Not even two or three projects
Starts with Visioning
Then the planning and the process
There’s policy
There’s partnership
There’s design
And then…. The implementation and funding
Agenda
Safe Routes to School
St . Thomas Aquinas
The Project School
Why SRTS?
Bike Facilities
Madison, Wisconsin
Why Bike Facilities?
Pedestrian and Multi-Use
Facilities
B-Line
National Road Heritage Trail
Why Trails?
Traffic Calming
Road Diets
Other Types of Traffic
Calming
Why Traffic Calming?
Safety
Plainfield/Indianapolis
Why Safety?
Safe Routes to School
Safe Routes to
School
At St. Thomas Aquinas, livability
starts with making the
neighborhood bikable and
walkable for school children
Safe Routes to School
At the Project School livability
means teaching children about
the importance of active minds
and bodies
Why SRTS?
• Approximately 50% of children walked and biked
to school in 1969 . In 2009, the number was just
13%
• Returning to 1969 levels of walking and bicycling
to school would save:
• 3.2 billion vehicle miles
• 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide
• 89,000 tons of other pollutants
• Al equal to keeping more than 250,000 cars off the
road for a year.
• As much as 20 to 30% of morning traffic is
generated by parents driving their children to
schools.
• One-third of schools are in “air pollution danger
zones.”
• Approximately 55% of children are bused, and
we spend $17.5 billion nationally each year on
school bus transportation an average of $692
per child transported per year.
Bike Facilities
Bike Lanes
In Madison, Wisconsin, livability
means safe bicycling for all
users
Why Bike Facilities?
Bicycling contributes $1.5 billion to Wisconsin's economy every year.
13,200 bike-related jobs
$535 million in tourism dollars from out-of-state visitors
reduced health care costs
Tourism
Sparta, Wisconsin welcomes 15,500 visiting bicyclists each year to the Elroy Sparta bike
trail. The Wisconsin DNR reports that 100,000 people use the trail annually.
Business
Bicycle Corporation, Saris Cycling Group, Planet Bike, Pacific Cycles, Waterford Precision
Cycles reside in Wisconsin.
Hundreds of locally-owned bike shops and bicycle-friendly businesses support the vitality of
local economies.
Wisconsin bicycle industry adds nearly $600 million annually to the state's economy.
Health Care
If just the residents of Madison and Milwaukee got enough moderate exercise by replacing
some short car trips with bike trips, healthcare costs could be cut by $319 million.
Pedestrian and Multi-Use Facilities
Bloomington’s B-Line Trail
National Road
Heritage Trail
Today: 38 miles currently
open in multiple segments
Use abandoned
Pennsylvania and Vandalia
rail corridors
Closely follow the
alignment of US 40
Eventually: Terre Haute to
Richmond. 150 miles
cross-state
Why Trails?
Indiana Study of Trail Use
conducted in 2000 found:
• 2,609 users in one month on
the Pennsy Rail Trail (Greenfield)
• 27,574 users on the Monon during same month in Indianapolis
• 86 to 95% of trail neighbors viewed trail development as
either having no effect or a positive effect on their property’s
value
• Across 6 trail sites surveyed throughout the state of Indiana,
69% indicated that the trail improved their neighborhood.
Traffic Calming
Types of Traffic Calming
Narrowed lanes
Reduced number of lanes
On-street parking
Speed humps, tables, or cushions
Chicanes
Curb extensions / bump-outs
Refuge islands
Road Closures
Converting one-way streets to two-way
streets
Chokers
Road Diets
Matches land use and transportation contexts on existing
streets
Reduces the number of vehicular travel lanes
Excess pavement can be used for urban trails or bike lanes or
for sidewalks, greenspace, landscaped medians
Lincoln Avenue, Evansville
Road Diet Case Study
Valencia Street, San Francisco
Reduced from 4 lanes with on-street parking to 2 lanes with on-
street parking plus bike lanes and center TWLTL
Bike usage increased 144% from 88 to 215 bicycles during the
PM peak hour
Motor vehicle traffic decreased by 10% from 22,000 ADT to
20,000 ADT
Traffic on nearby streets increased by 3.8%
No significant changes in collision rates on Valencia or parallel
routes
Safety
Intersection / Corridor Safety
Highway Safety Improvement
Program (HSIP) - to achieve
significant reduction in traffic
fatalities and serious injuries
on all public roads through
the implementation of
infrastructure-related
highway safety improvements
Plainfield Intersection Analysis
Proven Safety Countermeasures
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Road Safety Audits
Rumble Strips and Rumble Stripes
Median Barriers
Safety Edges
Roundabouts
Left and Right-Turn Lanes at Stop-Controlled Intersections
Yellow Change Intervals
Medians and Pedestrian Refuge Islands in Urban and
Suburban Areas
Walkways
Achieving Livability
What has worked in your communities?
Thank you
Jennifer Pyrz
Parsons Brinckerhoff
[email protected]
317.287.3411
Bicycling Industry Metrics
In Portland, the bicycling industry is robust. And growing.
Bicycle-related activity brings in about $90M
The bicycle-related industry sector has increased by 38% since
2006
Number of bicycle-related companies has grown by 50% since
2006. Most new businesses are small and locally-owned.
The bicycle-related industry provides between 850 and 1150
jobs
Nearly 4,000 annual races, rides, events and tours are held in
Portland every year. This is nearly a doubling of 2006 numbers.
Source: Alta Planning + Design
Multi-use Paths and Urban Trails
Agenda
Implementation
Safe Routes to School
The Project School
Hazard busing
Bike Facilities
City of Indianapolis or Louisville
Wisconsin economic indicator and crash
reduction
Pedestrian and Multi-Use Facilities
Cultural Trail
B-Line
Traffic Calming
Road Diets
HARMONI initiatives
User costs / savings
Safety
Plainfield/Indianapolis
Funding
Safe Routes to School
CMAQ funds
TIGER grants
TE grants
HSIP funds
Private contributions